Today's match...(es)

Could have been a rout if Italy had not fought so hard to almost come back. Slovakia got three goals and the Italians fought really hard to tie up but could not quite make it. Final score:

Slovakia 3 Italy 2

What a good game that was. Really hard played and the Slovakians did so well. Nicely done.

Italy is out and very emotional about it.

Also note: Paraguay 0 New Zealand 0 (also this morning)
So Paraguay advanced.

Never mind!!!!

Has anyone noticed that there is a new icon editor function in place so that when you load an icon you have to select it and crop it? I don't know about you, but I make my own icons ready to load and I don't want this on LJ. I think it should be optional. I want a ticky box where I can turn this crap off. If you know there is a way to turn it off, please let me know.


EDIT:

It only does that when your icon is too big. Ha. Silly me. Anyways. I was two pixels off in my icon. *sheepishly embarrassed look*

NEVER MIND!!! Next post will be an icon offer for the f-list. I made cool one.




By izabeth

World Cup Icon Offer: For the Flist

So I made this cool icon (posting with it) and it can be customized with your team's colors. Just let me know if you would like one and what team (country) you want and the two colors. The 2010 will be one color and the World Cup will be the other color. I will take a look at the jerseys unless you have a suggestion for the following:

Country:
Main Color:
Accent Color:

Icons will be posted back to you as a comment. No names on this one, just the colors will be customized. Thanks a ton.

Wimbledon Makes History...

I know I have been rather absorbed in World Cup football but while this has been going on, Wimbledon made history in the men's singles tennis today, well in all tennis. Longest match, ever! 11 hours long...5 sets and the last set went to 70 games. To put it in perspective --

Men's matches are best of 5 sets (3 of 5 takes it) and you have to take a set by 2 games first to 6 wins (if you win by two games). They do not allow tie breakers in the fifth set at Wimbledon which is the technicality that got this match into the wicket of lasting so long.

The last set, well no one could quite win by two games for a very long time. They kept going and going and going. One up, then the other up, one up, then the other up. This match spanned three days, 491 minutes and yes, 11 hours. Pretty darned amazing. I did not watch that much of it but caught the end.

The players were:

American: John Isner (winner of match)
Frenchman: Nicholas Mahut

Some links:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-25/fueled-by-andy-roddick-s-pizza-delivery-isner-wins-longest-tennis-match.html
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2010/06/hot_corner_history_in_the_maki.html

Anyways. Thought I would share this interesting tennis thing. Tennis was one of my sports in HS. Varsity letter in that one. Cheers! I only played JV soccer. Heh.



by bubbly